This Powerful Video Illustrates How Much We Bully Ourselves

What if someone else said your negative thoughts out loud?

How many times have you caught yourself in the midst of a negative thought about your body today? "You look so bloated," or "Ugh—why couldn't I have been born with her hair?" Even the most confident women in the world fall victim to this negative mental dialogue, and Dove decided to illustrate just how damaging those thoughts can be: By showing what it looks like when the internal bullying becomes external.

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The company had several French women write down their "ugly" thoughts as they occurred throughout the day, and turned these journals into a script for two actresses. Then they put the actresses in a public environment, so that the women (and others) could actually listen to their negative dialogue play out.

The point is this: It's simply unacceptable for people to speak to others this way, to voice such horrific insults and pick apart another person's appearance. So why on earth do we justify it in our own heads?